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Re: Vichy-French navy NAA-57
Yet the Vichy French did not initiate combat with the Allies, it was the other way around. Rather like the Bulgarians, which you mention. Should Iceland thus be moved to the Axis camp, under similar rules?
And at least one USAAF P-38 was lost to Spanish He 112s, so your comment there isn't watertight.
I'm happy with Vichy being regarded as separate to the Axis states, in view of its overall position and actions. And capabilities, had it so wished. What they didn't do is at least as important as what they did. Operating on the side of the Axis, the French Navy would have turned the Mediterranean into an Axis lake. What would then have happened in open to argument, but one likely hypothesis is the participation of Turkey on the Axis side with the loss of the Baku oilfields and the key supply route through Iran.
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